People's Pilot, Volume 6, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 April 1897 — PLATO’S ARCHERS. [ARTICLE]

PLATO’S ARCHERS.

The headquarters of the Order are temporarily at Rensselaer,' Ind. Its objects are not to supercede, or antagonize any existing society or organization whose objects are to promote the interests of the producing classes, but rather to aid and assist in the attainment of these objects. It admits to membership all who are necessary to a just and perfect system of societjß having signs and signals by which members may recognize each other and a ritual by which members are iniatiated. The iuitiaitory ceremony is admitted by all who have witnessed it, to be the best calculated to teach the iniatiates the relation which, productive and distributive branches of industry sustain to each other, of any formula ever yet devised. While not calculated to shock the religious or political sensibilities of any, the initiation sets forth in a clear and unmistakable object lesson the mistakes which our fathers have made in providing for the distribution of the products of labor among the various divisions of productive industry. No one who witnesses the ceremony can fail to understand where the error has crept into our social system, and what the remedy must be, for the evils of which the business interests of the country have so long been, are still, and will continue to suffer, until the remedy is applied. Any persons interested in the perpetuity of our government, and the preservation of its institutions, should at once make ap plication for membership in this society, and if there is no organization in his reach he should immediately take steps to have a Temple instituted in the neighborhood,